Greetings from Palestine, the central issue of Arabs, the free humanity, and the cause of truth for those who wish to follow it.
My brother Khaled Mashal, Abu Al-Walid, I address you from Kuwait, where I grew up and studied. The time was different in spirit and purity; at that time, we only knew that you were a son of Kuwait just as we considered ourselves sons of Palestine in class. I read your recent statement in which you mentioned that "Gaza has been completely destroyed, and this is the price of resistance, and the prices of resistance are very high," and that everyone should "engage in the fight, not just Gaza," and that "rearranging the Palestinian house is an inevitable necessity that cannot be escaped from, and we should not wait until the end of the battle to rearrange the Palestinian house."
My brother Abu Al-Walid, as a fellow student of yours in Kuwait, who knows closely your profound commitment to the Palestinian cause, allow me amidst this ash spread across geographical and psychological maps to address you as follows: Gaza has been entirely destroyed, but the destruction of stone does not mean the destruction of people. We have lost many lives, but every soul that has been lost equals all the structures that have been destroyed. Blood cannot be equated with cement; let us agree that as long as there is a beating heart in Gaza, Gaza remains, and as long as there is a will for liberation, Palestine remains.
Reconstruction is the easiest part of the matter because it is subject to financial figures and political calculations and interests between the region and the world, while the figures of martyrs, the injured, the affected, the missing, and the detained are the ones that carve into the rock of silence and force tears out of it. Those displaced from the deserts and tents will return to their homes after reconstruction... and it is enough that their homes are firmly rooted in every heart that beats in the name of Palestine.
My brother Khaled, let us come to the second point in your statement regarding the costs. It is true that those whose hands are in the fire are not like those whose hands are in water, and the people of Palestine know their paths best. You had many statements at the beginning of the battle saying that everything is calculated and studied; was the magnitude of the price as you anticipated, or was it greater? Were the calculations of the battle based on erroneous estimates? Was there an illusion among some about the extent of Israeli brutality that exceeded Nazism and the international support for this usurping entity? In historical junctures, leadership involves estimation and decision... and the most important aspect of estimation and decision is the interest of the cause and its people.
On the third point, which is the call for everyone to engage in the war, not just Gaza, this is normal and logical to say, but out of love, we ask: Was there first coordination with your partner in the homeland regarding a significant act like October 7 that would lead to a genocide as we see it, or are you asking them to participate in mitigating the repercussions? Was there coordination with the Arab host that has never abandoned Palestine despite all the known sources of discourse aimed at creating a rift between Arabs and the main owners of the cause? What is your opinion on the statements coming from regional officials asserting that what happened was necessary to stop certain trajectories in the region and to thwart new Arab-international understandings? These are matters you know, and we know they undermine the foundations of consensus, scatter projects, and push the factors of fear and caution to advance out of fear of other agendas in the matter.
The fourth point here is closely related to your third point about the necessity of rearranging the Palestinian house even before the end of the Gaza battle. Here, my brother Abu Al-Walid, I hope you can expand your heart a little for some words. As long as the Israeli society unites around a single goal in times of danger, regardless of differing opinions, Israel enjoys an additional factor of strength, and as long as the owners of the cause and the land are scattered in various directions, Palestine loses every day, even without war, and if this continues, Palestine will not return.
We do not want to relive the past between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority nor recall the violations of the sanctities in the bloody clashes that occurred, nor return to the image of the oath at the honorable Kaaba that vanished after 24 hours. We want to say that the Authority and Hamas are two essential entities that may differ ideologically and intellectually by about 99 percent, yet there remains at least one point to agree upon; let work begin from this point and let there be a genuine will, free from emotions and slogans, to build on agreements item by item.
Let’s be more frank, it is difficult for Palestine to return while internal and Arab division is fracturing both horizontally and vertically; instead of focusing on the state project, we divide into a pro-Authority team that holds you responsible for mistakes and doubts your implementation of regional agendas, and a pro-Hamas team that directs all criticism toward the Palestinian Authority and even accuses it of aiding the occupier. Therefore, the subject of rearranging the Palestinian house mentioned in your statement was the most important in this context, not only for reconciliation with the partner in the homeland but for agreeing on the Palestinian state project... And without this agreement, there is no project and no state.
May God grant you success, and may Palestine, its people, and its land find victory, and may we soon pray with you in the first of the two qiblas and the third of the two holy places.
